Word: pinchot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Humane Association, with headquarters in Albany, was at hand to congratulate Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1929 when he signed a bill prohibiting the cropping of dogs' ears in New York. Last week the Association sent its congratulations to another Governor, Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. for signing a bill which made his State the fifth to ban this practice. Others: Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut...
...resolution inspired by strike-leading Mrs. Gifford Pinchot (TIME, May 15) was passed suggesting that "the Junior League acquaint its members with wage and working conditions that prevail in the factories, shops and stores in their own neighborhoods and to take an active part, through the molding of a civic consciousness, to secure the eradication of such unhealthy and uneconomical conditions as may threaten the welfare of our citizens...
Wives of some great men remind us that we can make our lives sublime. The enthusiasm with which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt throws herself into teaching, baby-culture,* charity and social crusades is rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head...
...been in existence over a month, but only last week did press & public learn of New York's Academy of Arts. Immediately the Academy's bulletin board burgeoned like jonquils in an Alpine meadow with yellow telegrams of congratulation from Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...
Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania was caught in Washington with 95?, said he was glad he had enough gasoline in his car to carry him back to Harrisburg...